I need to finish this post so I can go write….
It’s a longish file because i couldn’t walk very fast this morning.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
-
Find me: Updated Links
Recent Comments
- ROBERT EVANS on Day 2754: Day Not Found
- ROBERT EVANS on Day 2753: Untitled For Some Reason
- Nate on Day 2752: Was A Sunny Day
- Robert Willey on Day 2752: Was A Sunny Day
- Robert Evans on Day 2745: Busy Day
In regards to Gredok and the “leadership” element of his society not being mentioned as being involved in business – I think you’ve run into a case of writing efficiency. You previously noticed this with regard to Quyth eye color – only 5 colors known, although others certainly *SHOULD* be present. Note that Gredok *is* a business leader – he does own a tavern, after all, but he also heads a crime syndicate – which is a business itself, in a sense. It is a case of if you don’t need it for the story, you tend not to work on it too closely (or perhaps Sigler just hasn’t released the information yet, though I would expect that kind of thing to be in the Series Bible). This of course can all together too easily lead to huge plot holes later, as JKR illustrated in Harry Potter. And yet, a writer only has so much time – look at the huge investment of time J. R. R. Tolkien put into the legends of Middle Earth, but one bus would have turned almost all of that work into waste, instead of us getting the massive epic that we did. Even you’re running into this, having to work carefully on *why* there is piracy in the Deep Dark, and how it works in an electronic currency economy. So, why didn’t Sigler mention business leaders? Because he didn’t need to – yet.